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Employers have criticised the government's computer science GCSE work for having a vendor agenda which means that it may fail to deliver business-ready IT graduates.
The Corporate IT Forum has told The Reg it feels IT suppliers have a "very significant" degree of influence on the Department for Education's work on the new GCSE.
The group represents 320 organisations – altogether employing 145,000 professional IT staff – ranging from McDonalds and Balfour Beatty to GCHQ and HMRC. The group said it thinks the proposed GCSE runs the risk of turning out students qualified to support Microsoft or Cisco products rather than for serving businesses outside of tech.
The corporate IT group told us it wants more input from its members about the new qualification.
Meanwhile, the forum has advised against the education department's proposal to end the current ICT curriculum in September.
While the ICT course has been panned by all for not turning out suitably qualified students, the forum believes killing it before the new GCSE arrives is dangerous.
The Corporate IT Forum, which participated in the DfE's ICT curriculum consultation that closed Wednesday, told The Reg that killing the course before 2014 would allow individual schools too much scope to simply not bother to teach any form of ICT course.
The DfE's new GCSE is currently being developed with the help of a programme called Behind the Screen – devised by eSkills UK – that is working with a range of employers. Among these employers are Microsoft, Cisco, Deloitte, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, John Lewis – which is also a member of Corporate IT Forum – with the National Grid and Procter & Gamble.
Cisco, meanwhile, has pledged to train 4,000 students in its network technologies by opening academies in East London and the Olympic boroughs in what it is calling an "investment legacy" after the Olympics. The network giant is an Olympics sponsor and is providing the Games' network infrastructure.
However, Corporate IT Forum executive director David Roberts told El Reg: "We'd like to raise the consciousness of government to the extent it may be influenced by suppliers to the point there aren't any other ways IT is being used... For the Forum it's about the need to raise the profile between IT and making UK PLC more productive."
He said that compartmentalising schoolkids' qualifications by type of technology is a bad idea and that pupils would need skills that are transferable between different employers and which cater to the needs of business.
"It seems the business aspect of how IT is used is completely left out of everything – those things are not included in something that's supplier-dominated," he said.
The group plans to produce a set of recommendations for the DfE on 10 key IT activities it believes that all schoolchildren should have by the age 16; this will be based on forthcoming research the group plans to conduct by July.
As part of its participation in the DfE's consultation process on the September termination of the ICT curriculum, meanwhile, the forum has recommended a number of steps to give students and teachers more experience of technology in a non-vendor-specific and more business-aware context. These included offering ICT teachers work placements with employers, mentoring and coaching for schools and teachers, and employers providing input into teaching materials.
Joanna Poplawska, the forum's performance director, said that the idea is to "make the seesaw between suppliers and IT users more balanced". ®


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US military officials said over the weekend that a Jan. 1 drone aircraft strike in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal area killed two senior Al Qaeda operatives.
But the continuing strikes inside Pakistan are doing little good in the war on terror, many observers here charge – or for a Pakistani government that is trying to sell it as "Pakistan's own war" rather than an American imposition, which is the popular perception.
Pakistan's government also maintains that such air strikes are strengthening the cause of the Taliban militancy at home.
"There are two battles going on here," says Ikram Sehgal a former major in the Pakistan Army and the publisher of the Defence Journal in Karachi. One involves the American search for Al Qaeda operatives hiding in the tribal areas, he says. The other is the Pakistan military's fight against the Taliban Movement of Pakistan that has taken root in the northwestern regions of the country.
Though the two have "linkages," they are "two separate wars," says Mr. Sehgal.
The Americans, Sehgal says, are launching drone attacks with the expectation that they will weaken Al Qaeda command structures in Pakistan. But the strikes also "are definitely making the job a lot more difficult for the Pakistanis," by giving the Taliban a rallying cry, he says.
Yesterday, at least six Pakistani soldiers were reported dead when hundreds of militants, in one of their largest attacks in months, struck checkpoints in the Mohmand Agency in the tribal belt. Mohmand Agency, which borders Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, is the newest battleground in the struggle between the Army and a mixture of tribal and Taliban militants for control of the swath of land along the Afghan border.
Security forces said they drove back the militants, who attacked from the direction of the Afghan border.
The drone attacks on New Year's Day are only the latest in the more than two dozen similar strikes, carried out since August 2008, which have killed more than 200 people, according to Agence France-Presse. The targets were the head of Al Qaeda in Pakistan and his deputy, both Kenyans and both wanted by the FBI for the bombings of the American embassies in Africa in 1998.
"We hear these claims every few months and there's rarely ever any follow-up," says Khalid Rahman at the Institute for Policy Studies, who also says he is skeptical of the authenticity of military claims from the tribal areas. According to military reports, a similar drone attack in November killed the alleged Al Qaeda mastermind of a 2006 airplane bombing plot, as well as an Egyptian Al Qaeda operative.
For many Pakistanis, says Mr. Rahman, such news is "pointless" considering the worsening militancy at home. "Unless we see actual gains, how can we keep supporting American airstrikes?" he asks.
The news of the latest Al Qaeda casualties came the day that Vice President-elect Senator Joe Biden arrived in Pakistan. Local media also reported that the Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gillani raised the issue of drone attacks with Mr. Biden.
In November last year the Pakistani prime minister had expressed hope that the new US administration would reconsider its tactics. "I am sure when the government of Senator Obama is set up, these attacks will be controlled," he told lawmakers referring to the drone attacks.
Government officials have consistently condemned American drone attacks at home but done little more than lodge occasional complaints with the Americans. This has led to wide speculation that there is an unofficial understanding between the two governments that allows drone attacks to continue.
But former President Pervez Musharraf, under whose rule these air incursions into Pakistan began, said this weekend that there was never any such understanding between Pakistan and the US in his rule.
"Pakistan has done more than anyone else in the war against terror," he said before boarding a plane on his way to the United States. "The United States should not ask us to do more," he said.
"If the Americans could start focusing more on ways to help Pakistan fight the Pakistani Taliban," the larger fight against militancy and terrorism in the region might be more successful, says Hassan Askari Rizvi, former professor of Pakistan Studies at Columbia University in New York.
Besides better cooperation with the Pakistanis, Mr. Rizvi says the American forces being deployed to Afghanistan next month should also be used to help seal the Afghan border.


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QuoteI thought the arduino IDE (or is it AVRDUDE?) AVRDUDE is the culprit.Quotedid perform an explicit DTR pulse The Windows version pulses DTR and CTS for the "arduino" programmer type; the type used by Arduino 0022. I'll investigate the *nix version tonight.
I thought the arduino IDE (or is it AVRDUDE?)
did perform an explicit DTR pulse
bool CurrentDTRState = (CDCInterfaceInfo->State.ControlLineStates.HostToDevice & CDC_CONTROL_LINE_OUT_DTR);
the biggest problem is backwards compatibility - the IDE still needs to be able to communicate with EVERY existing arduino board out there, containing various bootloaders, firmware, and hardware configurations.
the whole auto-reset is an admirable intention that has, over time, and with various 'tweaks' become an absolute nightmare. the problem has been compounded by attempts to stick to a single codebase across several OS platforms, each OS with it's own level of access to and support for the usb and/or serial hardware.personally, i'd do away with the auto-reset completely. instead i'd use a far more robust manual reset system:1. IDE pops up a window saying "PRESS and HOLD reset button..." with a counter going from 5 seconds down to 02. IDE then closes that window and pops up another window saying "RELEASE reset button NOW".during the above two steps the IDE would send repeatedly a query command to the bootloader, monitoring for a bootloader response. when the correct response came back the IDE would know that a communications channel with the bootloader had been established. if no response is seen within 5 seconds of the second window being popped up, a 3rd window could be popped up saying "Unable to Communicate". all very simple.if someone is bright enough to program an arduino, they should be bright enough to press and release a single button as instructed!
For a board like an official Arduino board like an UNO, if it were up to me, I'd puta set of holes for a 2 pin header that has a trace between them. That way if a personreally wants to disable auto-reset for good, they can cut the trace.If they want to use a jumper, they cut the trace and solder in a 2 pin header.
There will be a post on the blog on friday about this
i have some people who need more direct and non-technical info than this thread.
swapping the resistor with diode is a better fix anyway.
Isn't the 10k resistor part of a resistor network on Uno boards? That makes "simply replacing it with a diode" a bit problematic.I diode from reset to +5V can easily be inserted in the "power" connector; no soldering required.


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The latest installment of the "UFC Primetime" series concluded Friday with episode No. 3.
"UFC 154 Primetime: St-Pierre vs. Condit" previews tonight's welterweight title-unification bout between champion Georges St-Pierre and interim titleholder Carlos Condit.
Watch the full episode, and catch up with the first two installments of the series below.
UFC 154 takes tonight at Montreal's Bell Centre with St-Pierre (22-2 MMA, 16-2 UFC) vs. Condit (28-5 MMA, 5-1 UFC) in the pay-per-view main event.
St-Pierre, who is recovering from a knee surgery, fights for the first time since an April 2011 win over Jake Shields. He has endured almost 19 months on the shelf. Meanwhile, Condit competes for the first time since earning the UFC's interim title with a decision win over Nick Diaz in February.
The "Primetime" series takes viewers into both fighters' camps and personal lives ahead of the blockbuster fight.
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In Virginia, General Electric is shutting down its last incandescent lightbulb factory, marking the end of an era in American illumination - and factory jobs.
Hundreds of workers will be laid off next month when the GE factory shuts its doors. This tragedy reveals the ugly side of technological change. Though the incandescent was the reigning electric bulb across the globe for over a century, perfected and marketed by famed innovator Thomas Edison, it is no longer the best technology in terms of energy consumption. To save energy (and power bills) Americans are turning to compact fluorescents. Nighttime illumination will never look the same.
According to the Washington Post, in a fascinating feature on the lightbulb manufacturing industry:
What made the plant [in Virginia] vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014. The law will force millions of American households to switch to more efficient bulbs.
The resulting savings in energy and greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to be immense. But the move also had unintended consequences.
Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China.
Read the rest of the article at the Washington Post (via @TelstarLogistic)
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Molecular windstorms are ripping through the universe at 10,000 times the speed of the most powerful Earth hurricane. These super-sized storms can strip galaxies of the raw materials needed to make new stars in just 100 million years.
European Space Agency researchers have used the Herschel Infrared Telescope to detect these winds, the fastest of which is moving through space at more than 600 miles per second. What's more, these winds are disturbing the natural makeup of galaxies, ripping out huge amounts of gas each year - perhaps as much as 1,200 times the mass of our Sun each year.
If that loss of material holds constant, these winds could completely remove all the materials needed for continued star formation in about 100 million years, and that's just a conservative estimate. Some galaxies would be out of gas within just a million years. And once there are no more new stars, the galaxy itself effectively starts to die.
So what is creating these devastating windstorms? There are a number of possibilities:
The winds could be generated by the intense emission of light and particles from young stars, or by remnant shockwaves from the explosion of old stars. The windstorms also could be triggered by the radiation released as matter swirls around a black hole at the center of the galaxy. The fastest outflow winds appear to be coming from the galaxies that contain the brightest "active galactic nuclei," which is a giant, active black hole at the galaxy's center that feeds from its surroundings.
Whatever their precise cause, these windstorms likely play a crucial part in galactic evolution. The researchers speculate that these storms could result in the formation of elliptical galaxies, which are defined by their lack of gas and of new star formation.
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Huntington Bay trustees reconsider salary plan
Huntington Bay Village trustees, after an outcry from residents, are reconsidering a proposal to pay themselves a salary and scrapping the idea for now.
"We will table the compensation issue for this year's budget in order to give the village residents more time to voice their opinion," Village Mayor Herb Morrow said.
But he was adamant that this is an issue he will continue to push, and that he believes residents will support some version of a compensation plan.
"We can take the time to develop a plan for next year's budget," he said.
A draft proposal of the $1.2 million 2013-14 budget -- no increase from last year's -- called for a $3,000-a-month salary with benefits for the mayor, $300 a month for trustees, $5,000 a year for the police commissioner, $2,500 a year the road commissioner, and $125 a month for zoning board of appeals members.
Morrow said he was able to avoid increasing the spending plan even while adding a new line item of $69,000 for board members and other officials' compensation because a police department restructuring last year saved about $175,000 in salaries.
At a special budget hearing Monday night before 14 residents at the Huntington Yacht Club, Morrow laid out his reasoning for municipal salaries, saying the job is like running a small business.
Trustees include the deputy mayor and roads commissioner Dennis Gai; Jay Meyer, Don Rave, and Dom Spada, who is also police commissioner.
There are 32 incorporated villages in Suffolk and Morrow said about 10 of them have paid boards. He said he works about 20 hours a month as mayor of the village of 600.
"My position on this topic has been consistent for the last 10 years," Morrow said. But several residents argued if the job is taking too much time, one should resign or perhaps the volunteer board should expand to spread out duties.
Deb Colton, a village resident for nine years and a former mayoral candidate, who attended Monday's meeting, said Wednesday that the board made the right decision to reconsider the plan.
"Due to the strong opinion of the community . . . not to include this in the budget at this time is a wise move," she said.
Morrow said Wednesday that after meeting with his board over the previous days, members decided if and when the idea is reintroduced, the benefits issue will be dropped completely and the numbers modified from this year's proposal.
Still, he said, "Mayors on Long Island should be compensated at some reasonable level for their work."


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Lauren Alaina Would 'Love' to Try Acting
Lauren Alaina will be the first one to tell you that 2011 was the best — and the busiest — year of her life, but 2012 is slated to be a monster one as well. Alaina will kick off the new year in Vegas before hitting the road with Jason Aldean at the end of January, and though she's gaining new experiences by the day, she says there are still things she's anxious to try out, like acting.
"I just want it to be as good a year as 2011 has been," the 'Like My Mother Does' hitmaker says of the impending 2012. "It's been such an incredible year — so many doors have opened to me that I dreamed of opening. Literally everything I've ever wanted to do, I've been able to do in the past year."
When asked by the National Ledger whether she's gotten the itch to 'go Hollywood' and give acting a try, Alaina reveals, "I have discussed that a little bit. Someday I'd love to do acting, but I feel I'm not really ready for it in my career."
At 17-years-old, she needn't hurry. There are still awards to be won, tours to be conquered and follow-up albums to be released, but right now, Alaina says she's taking it one step at a time — starting with Fox's 'American Country New Year's Eve Live' special. "It's such an honor to be part of it," she spilled. "I'm really excited."


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Those hard-earned dibs may soon be hauled away in a Streets and Sanitation truck.
Many Chicago neighborhood streets are littered with "dibs," the time-honored tradition of placing an item on the street to hold a parking spot after you've cleared the snow away.
But Chicago Streets and Sanitation spokeswoman Molly Poppe says that garbage crews will take away items littered on the street, even if they're a parking placeholder, during the course of regular garbage pickups.
"We are focused on clearing the streets of the snow. Once we're done, those items will be cleared as part of garbage collection," Poppe said.
Garbage collection was suspended on Monday, but resumed on Tuesday.
Poppe says the trucks aren't actively looking for dibs debris, but will also pick up items brought to their attention through 311.
"We do not condone the use of dibs, we want everyone to be cordial and help their neighbors, but we don't issue tickets because we can't issue tickets for cars that aren't there," Poppe said.
Poppe said 200 trucks were out on Tuesday working on clearing snow from neighborhood streets, but the freezing weather has hampered the process.
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The FIO v3 is a new spin on the Arduino FIO hardware. Instead of an ATmega328V, the FIO v3 features an ATmega32U4 processor. This makes it possible to program the FIO via USB bootloader. It also uses a micro-USB connector instead of mini-USB.
The JST connector and 3.3V system voltage make this a great development tool for portable devices. Simply plug in any of these Polymer Lithium Ion batteries and you're ready to go. Wireless sensor networks and communication are made easy by the on-board XBee socket, into which you can plug any of these XBee modules.
The ATmega32U4, running at 8MHz, makes it possible for you to use the on-board USB jack not only to charge a connected Li-Poly battery, but also to program the device.
Because this board uses a similar bootloader to the one on the Arduino Pro Micro, you will need to download and install a special software driver (see below).


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Got Contra? Folk dancing warms up cold winter nights
What do you get when you combine a caller, a live band, and a group of new and experienced dancers? You guessed it: a Contra dance.
For the past 25 years, local folks have been gathering to participate in this fun-filled form of traditional American folk dancing. Young, old, first-timer or old-timer, Contra dance welcomes everyone.
Similar to square dancing, Contra dance consists of one partner guiding another through a series of moves or figures. Couples dance together and then switch up. The figures are repeated and combined in various ways for each dance.
If you're interested in trying Contra dancing, the Charlottesville-Albemarle area has several options: every first and third Friday of the month, 8-11pm, at the Municipal Arts Center, and (September-May) on the second and fourth Sundays at the Greenwood Community Center from 6:30 to 9:30pm.
If you've never been, don't worry! Arrive 30 minutes before the dance begins for a teaching/practice session.
Any way you look at it, Contra dance is a great way to meet friends, get exercise, and have fun while you're at it!
The friendly faces of Contra: Anne Atwell, Molly Burton, and Roland Von der Muhll get ready to dance the night away.
When the members of Fridley's Gap start playing, it's impossible to stand still.
Contra dance is fun for all.
Getting into the groove: A beginner's workshop, held before the dance, gives first-time participants a chance to learn the moves.
Jim Morrison: Contra Corners committee member, fiddle player, sound guy, and a darn good dancer
Brad Sayler calls the shots– and the dances.
Go on, let your partner sweep you off your feet.
Swingin' n' steppin': The scene at the Greenwood Community Center on Sunday night.


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Boston July 19th. 1776
Dear Brother & Sister
Yours of the 11th: Instant I received by Mr. Burroughs
and am glad to hear you & the Children are well, I would
inform you that it is ten days this day since my Children, Capt
Doggetts, Mr Ferriters & Mrs. Hewetts Children were all
Innoculated for the Small pox, and thot. some of them remain
very poorly, yet I am in hopes they will all soon get well
we make them keep about, as the Doctrs. say it is necessary
they hate to move or stir, as much as Man that is violently
Sea sick, All mine seems to be [cleaverly?] this day, having
abt. a dozen Pox apiece. I shall be glad when it is well
over with them, for my Wife has nobody with her to help
her, and is very much Wearied. Business is very dull in
my way having nothing to do. And this new expence coming
on makes it very difficult, but I hope it won't continue
so long.-- Mother went to Malden the day before
the children were Innoculated, she keeps at Mr: Waits.
I forgot to tell you brother Ben's child he Innoculated
a day or two before ours & is like to do well. He is now
gone out on a Cruize.
The Blade & Scabbod of your Sword all rusty
& defaced
was found, without the head, and is of no great value. I
of for the benefit of the Silver, but I cant say certain, and
you must put up with the Loss of it.
Yesterday the Declaration for Independency was Published
of the Balcony of the Town House. A detachment of the Train
of Artillery with two field pieces. And also a detachment of
the Colony Troops attended in King Street, and after [they]
finished Reading the Declaration there [were] three hearty Chears
given, And the field pieces were discharged a Number of
times, & the Musquettry, & the Several batteries in Town
& upon the Islands and at Nantaskett fired, the Bells
rang, and in the Afternoon was tore down the Lion & the Unicon
upon the East End of the Court Town House & the Kings Arms taken
down from the Council Chamber, Court House & other places &
towards Evening all were Committed to the flames to the
Satisfaction of every body but Tories.
As to the papers you mention, Foster Hutchinson
the late Judge of the Court of Probate carried off all
the papers in the office, belonging to this Country, and I
suppose the paper you mention is among them, what can
be don abt. it I don't know, it is a vast damage to the
Concerned, but I apprehend, by some means or other, they will
get them again, but how long first no body knows, the
said Judge is a great Scoundrel, for doing so.


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On entering the grounds of Schloss Freudenberg via the main gate, you are immediately struck by the large barefoot sensory path. Even the youngest visitors are left feeling inspired by the sensory experiences. Once you have tried out the humming stone, made a heavy boulder sway using a thread, explored the labyrinth, inspected the wind harp and visited the healing herb garden, the kids won't need any help finding their way to the double swing. There's still plenty of natural parkland to climb around in too. The new Nepalese swing near the labyrinth, which can swing you up to eight metres in the air, is great fun for everyone. The 'geomancy' transports you to a place of power, where, for example, you can feel the force of nature from beneath a swaying rock weighing several tonnes. Follow the stone maze, whose layout dates back to 500 BC, or try to see into the future through a witches' cauldron like the priests and shamans of old. There's even more to be found inside the house – names such as the flow field, cloud machine, Newton's cradle, giant triple time pendulum and scent organ spark the imagination. Here, you can experience whole new perspectives on sounds, melodies, smells, darkness, light and much more besides.
This is a laboratory where children and grown-ups can experiment for hours on end – with musical stones, singing bowls, sand that 'dances' to sounds, optical illusions and more. In the Passage of Darkness, you have to feel your way through the walkways before you can enjoy a drink or snack in the Dunkelbar ('dark bar') – everyday tasks prove quite a challenge in the blackness. Little ones can run around to their hearts' content at Schloss Freudenberg, trying out interactive exhibits and enjoying new sensations. You can explore all the facilities with or without a guide. In the winter there is a very special addition: the ice chamber where frostwork and icicles grow in a constant temperature of minus 22ºC. In addition to the Dunkelbar, Schloss Freudenberg has a café and the Nacht-Mahl restaurant, where food and drink are served in total darkness to heighten your other senses.
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In a show of solidarity with East Coast Democrats hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, City Councilwoman Linda Atkins announced today that she would suspend her re-election campaign, if she had one.
"Yeah, big whoop, I know," Atkins said. "I could actually give a shit about New York, but fuck. I had to do something to get my name in the paper, you know?"
Atkins explained. "Everyone's all, 'Oh yeah, Linda, run for re-election, Linda, we need you,' but then no one gives me shit for money and my dumb ass is out there raffling off the six fucking lawn signs I could afford to make and having to fabricate BS stories so people will remember I exist."
Atkins previously made headlines by stating that Sandy would make a "direct hit" on Eureka after annihilating Des Moines, Salt Lake and Carson City. She pointed to predictions by federal weather officials that temperatures in Eureka would likely plunge into the low- to mid-40s around Humboldt Bay overnight. Residents would also battle "perfect storm" conditions as winds — expected to gust upwards of 14 mph — combined with as much as .14 inches of rain. Micro-flooding and damp vegetation would impact many low lying areas or lawn with poor drainage.
"Okay, whatever," Atkins said. "I would just like to point out to all the people out there who say I don't do nothing but grandstand around and bitch about whatever the other councilmembers do that, okay, there's some truth to that, but there's also some truth to there hasn't been a single hurricane to hit Eureka since I was elected, okay?" she said. "So suck on that."
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BARRY O'FARRELL has become embroiled in a stoush with members of his own electorate over his reasons for opposing a second airport in Sydney.
Two long-standing aircraft noise campaigners from his Ku-ring-gai electorate claim the Premier told them at a meeting in May he would not support another airport in Sydney because of "votes in the western suburbs''.
The residents claim Mr O'Farrell said he would not talk about airport issues in Sydney because they were a federal matter - a stance he back-tracked on this month when he called for more planes to fly in and out of the airport.
The Premier denies their account of the conversation.
Mr O'Farrell has maintained for the past year that Sydney does not need another airport, despite predictions from the aviation industry, the federal government and his own bureaucrats that the city will soon require one.
Upset at the Premier's stance, which they fear will lead to constant flights during the middle of the night from the airport, the two campaigners secured a meeting with Mr O'Farrell at his Wahroonga electorate office.
One of them, Derek Frere, said he took notes of the conversation. The other, John Clarke, recalls the conversation in the same terms as Mr Frere.
Mr Frere said he was surprised by the Premier's candour at the meeting.
''It is all about the votes in the western suburbs,'' Mr Frere quotes the Premier as saying. ''I would like to be able to help you blokes, but you've got to understand it is all about the votes in the western suburbs.''
Mr Frere said: ''That is a direct verbatim quote from my notes. We didn't expect him to say that, but he disarmed us.''
The pair have decided to make the Premier's comments public because of his push this month to break the long-standing cap and curfew on flights out of Sydney Airport.
They fear continued refusal to build a second airport in the city will lead to more intensive use of Sydney Airport.
This is what Mr O'Farrell called for this month when he said the hourly cap on flight movements should increase from 80 to 85, and planes should be able to take off and land between 5am and 6am and 11am and midnight.
Mr O'Farrell's stance has angered members of his own party, including the federal shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey.
Mr Frere said the meeting with Mr O'Farrell was on May 25 at 3.45pm.
At the meeting, they recollect the Premier saying he would not talk any more about Sydney airport issues, because they were ultimately a federal matter. ''I had come away with a clear expectation that Barry basically wasn't going to say anything else, and then he comes out and is prepared to sacrifice his own electorate,'' Mr Clarke said.
A spokesman for Mr O'Farrell said: ''The claims being made about the meeting are untrue.
''The Premier also rejected their proposal of dumping the aircraft noise problems they were complaining about onto residents of western and south-western Sydney.''
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Britain's Pearson and Germany's Bertelsmann plan to merge their publishers Penguin and Random House, aiming to gain the upper hand in their relationship with Amazon and Apple, the leaders in the ebook revolution.
Education and media publisher Pearson said on Monday the joint venture - which will bring under one roof fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett, "Fifty Shades of Grey" author EL James and 2012 Nobel prize winner Mo Yan - would be named Penguin Random House.
Confirmation of a deal came after months of Pearson board discussions and despite an informal approach from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which was interested in combining Penguin with its own Harper Collins publishing unit, a person familiar with the situation said.
News Corp declined to comment.
"The consumer publishing industry is going through a period of tumultuous change, propelled by digital technologies and the giant companies that dominate them," Pearson Chief Executive Marjorie Scardino said in an email to staff.
"The book publishing industry today is remarkable for being composed of a few large, and a lot of relatively small companies, and there probably isn't room for them all - they're going to have to get together."
Under the plan, Bertelsmann will own 53 per cent of the venture and nominate five directors to the board, while Pearson would own the rest and nominate four. Both must retain their stakes in the venture for at least three years.
Penguin chairman and CEO John Makinson will be chairman of the new venture, and Random House CEO Markus Dohle will be its chief executive.
"We will have more than 250 imprints in this company," Dohle said in an interview with Reuters. "We want to preserve and give those imprints even better and richer resources."
The closing of the transaction is scheduled to take place in the second half of 2013, following regulatory approval.
Analysts said they would have preferred a bid from a group such as News Corp, which would have brought cash into the company and enabled Pearson to quit a market that has been hit by the rapid growth of the ebook and the control it has given to major distributors such as Amazon, Apple and Google.
Pearson, however, said the merger would provide significant synergies and the opportunity to spend more on the new technologies transforming the industry.
"Together, the two publishers will be able to share a large part of their costs, to invest more for their author and reader constituencies and to be more adventurous in trying new models in this exciting, fast-moving world of digital books and digital readers," Scardino said.
The two groups said they would save money on joint warehousing, distribution, printing and central functions. They gave no details but UBS estimated possible savings of 10 per cent of their combined cost base.
A joint venture will also allow Pearson to retain a link between its education division and the world-renowned Penguin brand. It also avoids a large tax bill in the United States which would have been incurred had Penguin Books been sold.
"We can see why Pearson has chosen this option, but there may be some disappointment there is no outright sale, and especially with the lock-in of the stake," Liberum Capital research group said.
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In the first nine months of 2012, Random House was the biggest book publisher in the two major English language markets of the United States and Britain. It was buoyed by the huge success of the "Fifty Shades" trilogy of novels, which sold more than 30 million copies between March and June, evenly divided between the trade paperback and ebook editions. Penguin was second in the US and third in Britain, behind Hachette.
Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of book research consulting firm Ideal Logical, said a tie-up would make the joint venture by far the biggest player in the market.
"This is about negotiating power," Shatzkin said. "Random House and Penguin will have so many of the most important books, it's hard to see how any retailers can live without them."
Under the agreement, Pearson said it could sell its stake to Bertelsmann after three years, but if Bertelsmann declined to buy, the joint venture could raise debt to pay both sides a dividend. Either side could require a stock market flotation after five years.
Pearson will include its 47 per cent share of the joint venture's profit after tax as an associate in its consolidated statement. While the 47/53 ratio is favorable to Pearson, given the size of the two publishers, the joint venture excludes Bertelsmann's German trade publishing business.
Shares in Pearson were flat at 1,222 pence at 1550 GMT, in line with the broader London market.
On October 3 Scardino said she would step down at the end of 2012 after 16 years, prompting analysts to wonder if the group would sell off its last remaining media assets and focus on its dominant education arm.
Many, however, had focused on whether Pearson would sell the FT Group, which publishes the Financial Times newspaper.
"Basically what people are really hoping for is (clarity) with the FT because that's the family silver and that would show they really have changed. I think they're seeing how it goes. One thing at a time," a top 50 Pearson shareholder said.
Bertelsmann, Europe's biggest media group and owner of European TV broadcaster RTL Group, is also in the middle of an overhaul to catch up with rapidly changing markets.
Random House is strong in Britain and the United States, while Penguin - founded in 1935 by publisher Allen Lane, who decided the mass market needed cheap paperbacks after finding nothing to read at a railway station - is the world's most famous publishing brand, with a strong presence in fast-growing developing markets.
Both groups have had to invest in the launch of ebooks. They made up 22 per cent of Random House's global business in the first half of 2012, compared with around 20 per cent for Penguin.
Analysts say regulators will want to look at the tie-up to ensure it complies with antitrust laws.
"I don't think they're going to be anxious to approve it. They'll have to think about it and think about where the industry is going and whether this is a necessary response," said Bert Foer, head of the American Antitrust Institute think tank, formerly of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, and father of three published authors.
In 2011, Random House had revenues of 1.5 billion pounds ($2.4 billion) and operating profit of 161 million. Penguin reported revenues of 1 billion pounds and operating profit of 111 million.
Pearson also published a trading update, showing sales up 5 per cent in the first nine months but operating profit down 5 per cent, reflecting the sale of assets, acquisition costs and weakness in the British professional training market.


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While many companies doled out seven-figure raises for their top brass last year, they were far more stingy with the rest of their employees — as they have been for decades now.
A report released this week by executive compensation and corporate governance data firm Equilar finds that 44 of the 50 top-paid CEOs were paid more in 2013 than 2012 — these 50 CEOs saw a 21.7% increase in median pay — and two of them got raises in excess of 400%, and in one case in excess of 500% (pay includes salary, stock, options awards, cash bonuses, perks and other incentives). And some CEOs did especially well last year: the highest-paid CEO, Anthony Petello, of Nabors Industries, raked in $68.2 million, up 246% from 2012; the second highest-paid CEO, Leslie Moonves of CBS, got $65.6 million, up 9%; and the third-highest-paid, Richard Adkerson of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, got $55.3 million, up 294%. The CEO with the biggest pay jump was number-four-ranked Stephen Kaufer of TripAdvisor, whose pay jumped 510% to $39 million, followed by Sandeep Mathrani of General Growth Properties, whose pay of $22.1 million was up 424%. "The biggest driver for change in pay for 2013 vs. 2012 was the stock award, the equity given to the execs," says Aaron Boyd, the director of governance research at Equilar — which, because the stock market had such a good year, boosted their pay significantly.
What's more, 2013 isn't a fluke: CEOs have been quietly (and some not so quietly) ratcheting up higher and higher paychecks throughout the past few decades. From 1978 to 2012, CEO compensation rose 875% — a rise that was "substantially greater than the painfully slow 5.4% growth in a typical workers' compensation over the same period," according to a study released last year by the Economic Policy Institute. Furthermore, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio was 29.0-to-1 in 1978, compared with a whopping 272.9-to-1 in 2012, and CEOs now earn 202.3 times more than than the typical worker, compared with 26.5 times in 1978.
CEOs are even raking in loot at a far faster rate than very highly compensated professionals (those earning more than 99.9% of other wage earners). In the '50s, '60s and '70s, CEOs made 1.62 times more than ultra-high earners, but in 2010 that ratio was 3.08 times more.
Meanwhile, the 99% is struggling — and has been for decades, according to several studies. A report by the Census Bureau found that the real median income of Americans — $51,017 — is virtually unchanged from the late 1970s and early 1980s. And a study by the Economic Policy Institute released last year found that the median worker has seen wage growth of about 5% between 1979 and 2012, even as productivity grew 74.5% over that period. "The wage and benefit growth of the vast majority, including white-collar and blue-collar workers and those with and without a college degree, has stagnated, as the fruits of overall growth have accrued disproportionately to the richest households," the study authors conclude.
Even workers who do get raises typically don't see anywhere near the massive pay hikes that some CEOs get. Workers who were among the highest-rated employees in a company got raises of an average of 4.3% in 2013, an increase of just 0.2% from a year earlier, according to the seventh annual Compensation Planning Survey by Buck Consultants. And according to a survey by Towers Watson, the highest performers got an average salary bump of 4.6% in 2013, compared with 2.6% for average employees. And employees shouldn't expect their employers to make it rain anytime soon: According to Towers Watson, employers are planning on doling out average raises of just 2.9% for salaried, non-management employees — virtually unchanged from last year. "With the job market remaining relatively soft, most companies aren't feeling pressure to raise salaries by much more than the rate of inflation," said Laura Sejen, global practice leader for rewards at Towers Watson.
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The Highly Qualified Teacher Provisions of No Child Left Behind
There is much confusion about exactly what No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) highly qualified teacher provisions include and what they mean for individual teachers. In addition to the following brief overview, refer to the section entitled "Questions Teachers Frequently Ask about No Child Left Behind" for more detailed information.
Why No Child Left Behind Includes Provisions on Teacher Qualifications
Recent studies offer compelling evidence that teachers are one of the most critical factors in how well students achieve. For instance, studies in both Tennessee and Texas found that students who had effective teachers greatly outperformed those who had ineffective teachers. In the Tennessee study, students with highly effective teachers for three years in a row scored 50 percentage points higher on a test of math skills than those whose teachers were ineffective.6
Thus, No Child Left Behind includes provisions stating that all teachers in core academic areas must be highly qualified in the core academic subjects they teach by the end of the 2005-06 school year. It also requires that newly hired teachers in Title I programs or schools be highly qualified immediately. A more flexible timeline is allowed for teachers in eligible small, rural schools, who often teach multiple subjects. See page 25 for more information.
All teachers hired after the first day of the 2002-03 school year in Title I schoolwide programs must be highly qualified. However, in Title I targeted-assistance schools, only those teachers paid with Title I funds need to be highly qualified immediately. Check with your district to determine your school designation.
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No Child Left Behind requires all teachers to earn a bachelor's degree in every subject they teach, as well as certification in every subject.
The law requires teachers to have a bachelor's degree and full state certification and to demonstrate content knowledge in the subjects they teach. NCLB requires neither separate degrees nor separate certifications for every subject taught. In fact, under NCLB states decide what is necessary for certification and for determining subject-matter competency.
Teachers Who Teach Core Academic Subjects Must Meet the Definition of Highly Qualified for the Subjects They Teach
The law requires public school elementary and secondary teachers to meet their state's definition of highly qualified teacher for each core academic subject they teach. According to No Child Left Behind, these subjects are English, reading or language arts, math, science, history, civics and government, geography, economics, the arts and foreign language. Special education teachers and teachers of English language learners must be highly qualified if they teach core academic subjects to their students.
How States Determine Their Highly Qualified Teacher Provisions
In general, under No Child Left Behind a highly qualified teacher must have:
- A bachelor's degree.
- Full state certification, as defined by the state.
- Demonstrated competency, as defined by the state, in each core academic subject he or she teaches.
The first requirement is straightforward. For the second, the state has freedom to define certification according to its needs. The state can use this opportunity to strengthen and streamline its certification requirements. It can also create alternate routes to certification.
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New Elementary School Teachers
Elementary school teachers who are new to the profession must demonstrate competency by passing a rigorous state test on subject knowledge and teaching skills in reading and language arts, writing, math and other areas of the basic elementary school curriculum.
New Middle and High School Teachers
At the middle and high school levels, new teachers must demonstrate competency either by passing a rigorous state test in each subject they teach or by completing an academic major or coursework equivalent to an academic major, an advanced degree or advanced certification or credentials.
Experienced Elementary, Middle School and High School Teachers
Teachers with experience must either meet the requirements for new teachers or demonstrate competency based on a system designed by each state. No Child Left Behind recognizes that many teachers who have experience may already have the qualifications necessary to be considered highly qualified. Therefore, the law allows states to create a high, objective, uniform state standard of evaluation (HOUSSE). This standard is defined by each state in line with six basic criteria established in NCLB. HOUSSE allows states to evaluate teachers' subject matter knowledge by recognizing, among other things, their teaching experience, professional development and knowledge in the subject garnered over time in the profession. The law requires that such standards
- Are set by the state for grade-appropriate academic subject-matter knowledge and teaching skills.
- Are aligned with challenging state academic content standards and student achievement standards and developed in consultation with core content specialists, teachers, principals and school administrators.
- Provide objective, coherent information about the teacher's attainment of core content knowledge in the academic subjects in which a teacher teaches.
- Are applied uniformly to all teachers in the same academic subject and the same grade level throughout the state.
- Take into consideration, but are not based primarily on, the time a teacher has been teaching the academic subject.
- Are made available to the public upon request.
This evaluation may involve multiple, objective measures of teacher competency.
Important: Most states have developed their high, objective, uniform state standard of evaluation (HOUSSE) standards for experienced teachers. Many are using point systems that allow teachers to count a combination of years of successful classroom experience, participation in high-quality professional development that evaluates what the teacher has learned, service on curriculum-development teams and other important activities related to the development of content-area expertise. As states begin implementing these standards, many experienced teachers will find that they already meet the competency requirements for the subjects they teach. Others may need to take only minimal steps to meet the requirements. Teachers should contact their state department of education to learn about the status of their state's HOUSSE provision for experienced teachers.
Teacher Testing
Under No Child Left Behind, it is not mandatory for all teachers to take a test to determine that they meet their state's highly qualified teacher requirements in the subjects they teach. Testing is required only for new elementary teachers. States have the flexibility to create and make determinations regarding subject-matter tests for teachers, and NCLB allows new and experienced secondary teachers to demonstrate competency through a major or its equivalent in the subject, or through an advanced degree or certification. As each state defines its own grade-level content standards, it should choose appropriate assessments for new teachers and provide opportunities for experienced teachers to demonstrate subject-matter knowledge through a test or other means.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — NBC "Meet the Press" host David Gregory got a rise out of Glenn Greenwald on Sunday by asking the Guardian reporter why he shouldn't be charged with a crime for having "aided and abetted" former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden.
Greenwald replied on the show Sunday that it was "pretty extraordinary that anybody who would call themselves a journalist would publicly muse about whether or not other journalists should be charged with felonies."
Greenwald first reported Snowden's disclosure of U.S. government surveillance programs. On Sunday, Ecuador's foreign minister and the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said that Snowden was headed to Ecuador to seek asylum.
During his interview with NBC's Gregory, Greenwald declined to discuss where Snowden was headed. That refusal seemed to prompt Gregory to ask: "To the extent that you have aided and abetted Snowden, even in his current movements, why shouldn't you, Mr. Greenwald, be charged with a crime?"
Greenwald said Gregory was embracing the Obama administration's attempt to "criminalize investigative journalism," citing an FBI agent's characterization of Fox News journalist James Rosen as a probable co-conspirator of a State Department contractor who was suspected of leaking classified information to Rosen. Rosen was not charged.
"If you want to embrace that theory, it means that every investigative journalist in the United States who works with their sources, who receives classified information is a criminal, and it's precisely those theories and precisely that climate that has become so menacing in the United States," said Greenwald, a former constitutional and civil rights lawyer who has written three books contending that the government has violated personal rights in the name of protecting national security.
Gregory responded that "the question of who is a journalist may be up to a debate with regard to what you are doing." Gregory also said he was merely asking a question.
"That question has been raised by lawmakers as well," Gregory said. "I'm not embracing anything, but, obviously, I take your point."
Later, Greenwald tweeted, "Who needs the government to try to criminalize journalism when you have David Gregory to do it?" and, "Has David Gregory ever publicly wondered if powerful DC officials should be prosecuted for things like illegal spying & lying to Congress?"
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Two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people this week terrorized the area overnight. One is dead, but the other is on the loose, police say, and he's armed and dangerous.
Police pursued two men early Friday who shot a police officer to death, stole a vehicle and threw explosives at law officers pursuing them. Authorities believe they are the same two men sought in the marathon attacks.
One died of injuries suffered while battling police early Friday, and the other is on the run in a nearby suburb, authorities said.
Both men allegedly killed one police officer late Thursday, wounded another early Friday and used explosives against police pursuing them.
Marathon 'Suspect number 2'
Police believe the man at large is "suspect number 2" in Monday's bombing.
"Suspect number 2" is said to be 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of Cambridge. Several sources are saying that the man killed is his brother. They lived in the United States for at least a year.
Federal, state and local law officers are swarming through the Boston suburb of Watertown, going door-to-door to track him down, said transit police spokesman Paul MacMillan.
Police warned Watertown residents to lock their homes and stay away from their windows and doors.
A surveillance image of the fugitive resembles photos of one of the suspects sought for alleged involvement in the marathon attacks that killed three.
The image of the man with bushy, wavy black hair, a pronounced chin and nose, and a slight build matches photos circulated of the man in the white cap, carrying a backpack near the scene of Monday's bombing.
Due to the strong similarity of the two images, police believe the fugitive may be "suspect number 2" in the marathon terror attack, MacMillan said.
The other suspect was injured in a a shootout with transit police and pronounced dead at a local hospital, according to a statement from the Massachusetts district attorney.
Police believe he could be suspect number 1 in the marathon attack.
Boston's public transit authority has sent city buses to Watertown to evacuate residents while bomb experts comb the surroundings for possible live explosives.
Night of terror
The violence erupted when a college police officer was shot and killed late Thursday. The events that followed sent sirens howling through the night, and emergency lights shattering the darkness, as police chased after two suspects who tossed explosives at them.
Still on edge from Monday's deadly bombings, local, state and federal law officers responded to reports of a shooting on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge directly across from Boston on the Charles River.
At the time, they did not know of possible connections to the bomb attacks.
News media from across the country — in Boston to cover the investigation into the marathon terror — flocked to MIT's campus.
Two men had shot and killed the university policeman, while he sat in his car, the district attorney's office later said. State police and the FBI found the officer there with multiple gunshot wounds.
He was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The same two suspects then hijacked a car at gunpoint in Cambridge and initially held the vehicle's driver in the car with them, the district attorney said. They released him half an hour later at a gas station unharmed.
Police encountered the stolen vehicle and gave chase. Suspects threw explosives out the window at the officers in a futile attempt to elude capture. "The suspects and police also exchanged gunfire," the statement read.
A transit police officer was "seriously injured" and taken to hospital.
Showdown in Watertown
Police cornered the vehicle in the suburb of Watertown and set up a perimeter, as reinforcements and emergency vehicles poured into the area.
Officers quickly locked down the streets of the Watertown neighborhood after isolating the vehicle.
Police carrying assault rifles ran down the streets, according to CNN affiliate WCVB, which broadcast images from the area.
One of the suspects — the man who could be suspect number 1 — had been wounded during the pursuit. He was taken to Beth Israel hospital, where Doctors pronounced him dead after unsuccessful attempts to reanimate him, a hospital spokesman from said.
He had bullet wounds and injuries from an explosion.
CNN photographer Gabe Ramirez arrived in Watertown as the chase ended.
"Police were in a standoff with the vehicle just down the hill," Ramirez said. They ordered one suspect out and commanded him to strip down completely naked before putting him in a patrol car, which did not leave the scene.
The man was later released and is not a suspect in the case.
But while the man was being held, FBI agents approached the squad car, and police ordered the man back out of the car. FBI agents questioned him — still fully undressed — on the sidewalk.
In an early phase of the lock down, a man could be seen lying face down on the street with his hands outstretched in front of him and his legs crossed. It is unclear whether this was the man who was arrested and ordered to undress.
Explosives once more
Police requested that people in the lockdown area turn off their cell phones. Authorities suspect cell phones were used to detonate the bombs that flung metal through the crowds at the marathon Monday.
Dozens of police from various units arrived in Watertown, some in SWAT uniforms, others wearing helmets. Large crowds gathered around a trove of emergency vehicles that had congregated in the neighborhood, WCVB reported.
Homeland Security Investigations deployed agents to the scene, a Homeland Security spokesman told CNN.
Police also said they were going door-to-door, street by street, searching the Watertown area.
Area residents have been on edge after two bombs ripped through the crowd near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring 178 others.
Federal, state and local agencies are still investigating the marathon bombing.
Police, who were seeking two suspects in the attack, now believe they have found them.
CNN's Terence Burke, Dave Alsup, Carma Hassan, Jake Tapper, Drew Griffin, Steve Almasy and Chandler Friedman contributed to this report.
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I feel this poll is inevitable, so I'll get it out of the way. Be honest, you won't get special points for picking me
If you are unsure of the names, in my sig from left to right are Narya, Nyteblade (Nyte), Keydar, Mijikai (Miji), Gigzara (Gigz), Krom
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Here's a scary thought; Social Security is the largest source of retirement income for most Americans.
Routinely referred to by politicians and policymakers as a safety net to supplement other sources of retirement income, the sad reality is too many older Americans rely on it outright.
Just as troubling is the apparent confusion over when to begin taking Social Security payments—confusion that extends beyond recipients to the advisors themselves.
A recent paper from David Blanchett, head of retirement research with Morningstar, seeks to dispel that confusion. Blanchett and his team performed three claiming scenarios: receiving benefits early (e.g., at age 62 versus 66); delaying benefits past full retirement age (e.g., age 66 versus 70); and the maximum realistic delay period (e.g., at age 62 versus 70).
The results suggested it's best not to begin taking benefits early, and if clients do, they should not "play with their own money" by attempting to invest it for a higher return than they would have received by waiting.
"Most retirees would be best served delaying Social Security benefits until at least full retirement age or later, and that delayed benefits are especially valuable for females, married couples, retirees who expect to invest in relatively conservative portfolios during retirement and retirees who have longer life expectancies," Blanchett reported.
The effective return achieved by a retiree from making the optimal Social Security decision can "significantly exceed the return he or she could potentially earn by investing the money received from starting benefits earlier and 'investing the difference,' especially in today's low interest rate environment," he added.
Blanchett found the optimal Social Security claiming decision can generate 9.15% more income for a hypothetical retired married couple, which creates an annual equivalent "financial planning alpha" (or gamma) of +0.74% per year.
He also found an investor would likely need to earn an annual nominal compounded rate of return, net of fees, of more than 7% to be better off claiming benefits early.
"Delayed Social Security benefits can enable an investor to effectively achieve a rate of return that is much greater than they are likely to earn in the market," Blanchett concluded. "Social Security benefits can also provide a valuable hedge against longevity risk and offer a form of protection from the adverse effects of cognitive decline at older ages."
Read Navigating the Social Security Maze: Spouses and Survivors by Robert Bloink and William Byrnes on AdvisorOne.


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- Laptop computers owned by Rodman Public Library are available to registered library patrons in good standing who are 18 years of age or older.
- A valid library card without restrictions is required.
- Patron must leave with library staff a valid driver's license or photo ID that matches the patron's library card during the time the laptop is being used.
- Laptop computers will only be issued when all desktop computers are in use and must be used within the library.
- Daily limit for all computers is 1 hour.
- Laptops are due 30 minutes before closing, regardless of when they are checked out.
- Printing is not available from laptop computers. If you wish to print, save your files to a flash drive and print it from a desktop computer.
- All user data is deleted when the laptop is restarted.
- Users of laptop computers must abide by Rodman Public Library's Wireless Access Policy and Internet Use Policy.
- Misuse of Rodman Public Library's laptops will result in revocation of laptop privileges.
- Laptops not returned to Rodman Public Library's circulation point will be marked lost and the patron who checked out the laptop will be charged for a full replacement cost of $1,100.
- The borrower agrees to assume any and all liability for the cost of repair or replacement in the event of loss due to theft, damage, negligence or misuse.
- Rodman Public Library staff reserve the right to suspend laptop borrowing privileges for any reason.


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What happens when women combine their love of sports with their love of technology? ESPN plans to find out this weekend, at the espnW Hack Day supporting its ESPN API and held on the Stanford University campus. And if you don't think women love sports or technology, you need to think again.
Anyone who follows college sports has heard of Title IX, the landmark 1972 legislation which prohibited schools receiving federal funds to practice gender discrimination. In the forty years since that law passed, women have demonstrated that they definitely want to play. The 2012 Brooklyn College study "Women in Intercollegiate Sport" found that female participation in college athletics is now the highest in history, with 200,000 women intercollegiate athletes in 2012.
The story in tech industries is not so good. In its 2009 report "Women in IT: The Facts," the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) found that:
"even when women are interested and accomplished in computer science or technology, they often choose other careers," and "[t]he percentage of computing occupations held by women has been declining since 1991, when it reached a high of 36 percent."
But many organizations--including tech companies always looking to hire more developers, irrespective of gender--are working to change that trend.
On November 9th and 10th, espnW, cable network ESPN's "online destination for women's sports," will present a Hack Day in partnership with the Stanford University Graduate Program in Journalism, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, and companies including Mashery, Twitter, Twilio, and Facebook. The goal is for participants to use ESPN and partner APIs to build "[m]obile, digital and social products to serve sports fans or athletes — from busy, on the go female fans to tools that connect athletes at all stages of life."
As if the opportunity to work with other passionate developers and meet tech industry professionals weren't enough, the espnW Hack Day is also offering prizes: the creators of the "best app with ESPN API" will win a trip to ESPN headquarters in Connecticut; "best use of YouTube API" wins a Nexus 7 tablet; and more. The judges include YouTube Chief Marketing Officer Danielle Teidt, Twitter for Android Senior Software Engineer Sara Haider, and Facebook Software Engineer Sophia Chung.
Registration for this free event is now full, but you can sign up for the waitlist (priority will be given to Stanford University students), or follow Twitter updates with the hashtag #hackespnw.
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I've searched and found a bunch of web hosting review sites but can't tell which are good and which are scams. It seems that companies like Lunar Pages, Infinology, StartLogic, EasyCGI are always listed but I don't trust all the sites.
Any help is appreciated, esp. if your are using one now. Thanks and Happy New Year!


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The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is hosting a new discussion forum called "Point Counter-Point", on Wednesday 11 July at 7:15pm. The forum will be held at the UN Headquarters, debating on the theme "Social media is anti-social". The discussion will be webcast live.
The forum will explore the pros and cons of social media and examine its challenges and opportunities. The four speakers will include Tracy A. Dennis and B J Mendelson, who will be speaking in defence of the motion, and Ambassador Abdullah Haroonand Nadia Mostafa, who will be speaking against the motion.
UNAI members are encouraged to watch the debate online at webtv.un.org, and to join in a conversation of their own on the UNAI Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ImpactUN
Note: The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is a global initiative that aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in furthering the realization of the purposes and mandate of the Organization through activities and research in a shared culture of intellectual social responsibility.
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC Brussels)
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A small book full of big ideas, 'The Little Book of Hygge' is all about finding happiness and cosiness to support your wellbeing. Hygge is a Danish term that roughly means to create an atmosphere or sense of cosiness.
'You know hygge when you feel it. It is when you are cuddled up on a sofa with a loved one, or sharing comfort food with your closest friends. It is those crisp blue mornings when the light through your window is just right' ('The Little Book of Hygge', Meik Wiking).
Author, Meik Wiking, is CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Denmark, which is commonly known as the happiest country in the world. In his book, Meik shares the knowledge he has learnt about happiness. He believes the Danish concept of 'hygge' is the key to leading a happier life.
Full of interesting facts, including a Hygge Manifesto, the book covers everything from using lighting to create a more 'hyggelig' atmosphere, to the importance of hot drinks and pillows. However, it also discusses the integral role of family and friends and securing a good work/life balance.
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29 Oct 2012, 8:52 AM
Could some one guide me in creating a vertical tool bar with series of buttons. On clicking one button sub menu should be displayed and on clicking next button the menu that appear before shouls automatically hide and the menu corresponding to second button should be diaplayed.
Please help me out in these.
Please help me out in these.